Day bed



E. HEIN May 26, 1925.

DAY BED Filed April 3 2I 1924 INVENTOR.

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Patented May 26, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT 'OFFICE EDWARD HEIN7 OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR T0 FOOT REYNOLDS COM- PANY, 0F GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, A CORPORATIONOF MICHIGAN.

DAY BED.

Application led April 12, 1924. Serial No. 706,078.

To all 'fw-7mm t 'may concer/n.:

Be it known that I, EDWARD HniN, a citizen oi the United States, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State ot Michigan, have invented certain new and -usei'ul Improvements in Day Beds, oit which the liollowingl is a speciiication.

My invention relates to improvements in, so-c-alled, day beds and its objects are: .i lirst, to provide a means whereby the bed springs and tick in the auxiliary part of the bed may be readily and easily raised and lowered with the least possible strain upon the actuating parts, and, second, to provide a ineans whereby when the bed part ofthe auxiliary 'trame is elevated it will be held absolutely and reliably in position, and vwhereby when the bed part is lowered for sliding it under the primary bed, (not here shown) it may be lowered sufliciently to protect the bed clothes and tick from contact with the frame of the primary bed.

I attain these objects by the construction shown in the accompanying drawing, in which Fig. l is a sectional elevation of my bed trame upon the line lr-i of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a plan of the bed traine, and, Fig. 3 is a sectional end view of the bed frame on the line 8-3 of Fig. l with the bed spring iframe and the tick in place in elevated position.

Similar reference characters indicate siniilar parts throughout the several views.

In the construction of this bed I make a rectangular 'frame having upright sides l supported by cross ends, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2. I pivotally mount a standard 2 near each end of and at one edge of one oi said sides l, as at 2. The standards should be so formed that a. line drawn from 2 to 7 and thence to 3 will form an acute triangle, with the point 3 so positioned that its' relative height from the bottom oit the trame will not be materially varied when the standards are swung troni the positions shown by their' solid lines into the positions indicated by their dotted lines, or vice versa.

To operate these standards to raise and lower the bed 9 I pivotally mount a lever 6 upon the side l, midway between the said standards, as at I then pivotally connect one end of each of the connecting rods 4 and 5 with said lever, as at 5 and 5, one above and one below the pivotal bearing of the lever, and likewise connect the other ends ot said connecting rods with the standards at 3', thus rendering it impossible for a dead'center to be formed at any point in the swinging movements of said standards, rendering it possible to exercise the .maximum of force from the lever 6 upon the said standards at each and every point in their movement when raising or lowering the bed. i Y l At the other side of the bed i'raine I pivotally mount plain standards, as indicated at 8, and connect the Vstandards 2 therewith by means of cross bars or rods 7 and ll. The rod l1 is used simply as a brace to assist to hold the two uprights in proper alinement,

and the cross rods 7 not only assist to hold these uprights in proper alinement, when raising and lowering the standards for raising and lowering the bed springs and tick,

but they form supporting bearings i'or the y spring frame, as indicated at 9 in Fig. 3.

Vhen the parts 4, 5 and 6 are in the position sho-wn in solid lines in Fig. 1, the uprights 2 are held in their elevated position for holding the auxiliary bed springs and tick upon the same plane with the tick on the primary bed, as indicated in Fig. 8, but when the lever 6 is carried over into the position indicated by its dotted lines a, the

connecting rods fl and 5 will be carried into the positions indicated at Y) and c, and the standards will be carried into the positions indicated at CZ, when the spring iframe 9 and the tick 9 will be lowered Vinto the position indicated by the dotted lines 9 in Fig. 3.

In Figs. l and 3 I have shown a supporting rod 10 designed to hold the standards 2 in proper vertical position when elevated, but when the'stop c is used the rod 10 is not essential 'for this purpose, though even then I deem it ot great service in strengthening the sides of the bed frame.

It will be noted that when the standards 2 are in the position indicated by their dotted lines at d, the points of connection with the connecting rods 4 and 5 is so tar above the pivotal bearings 2 of the standards that it requires but slight strain upon the lever 6 to move the lever from a to c and raise the bed tick and springs into their uppermost positions, indicated in Fig. 3, and in this peculiar feature lies the germ of my invention, as by this construction I am enabled to lower the bed springs to the lowest lil possible position, as upon the rods 2, bringing the tick Well vbelow the top of the frame l, and when in this position it requires but small effort upon the lever 6 to raise the entire structure into the higher position indicated in Fig. 3.

As the difference in the sizes of the several elements in the construction of this bed is such as to render it impractieable to produce proper proportions upon a sheet of Patent Oe'e Bristol board, I have' shown Figs. l and 2 of my drawing severed at X and Z so as to show the frame in three sections, A, B and C, longitudinally, thus enabling me k to show the patentable features more plainly than I could, otherwise, have done. Furthermore, as day beds are in common use I have refrained 'from' showing more than the elements in the auxiliary part of the bed that I desire to secure by Letters Patent, leaving the main frame 'of the bed, or the settee part, unillustrate'd.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new in the art, is:

In day bed construction, a frame having vertically disposed side rails, a standard` pixf'otally mounted upon one of said side rails near each end and near the lower edge thereof, an arm integral with an extending` to one side of each standard and so positioned that the vertical distance of the end of said arms Will be positioned upon the same plane above the pivotal bearing of the standards whether the standards are in horizontal, or in vertical position, a lever' pivotally mounted upon the rail between the Standards, connecting rods pivotally connected at one end with the lever each side oi' its pivotal bearing, and pivotally mounted at the other ends upon the ends of the `arms on the standards, plain standards pivotally mounted upon the other bed rail in position to pair with the first named standards, and supporting beams secured to and connecting the upper ends of the standards in pairs, all somounted that the operation of the lever will cause the standards to raise, lower and support the bed and bedding upon the cross beams.

Signed at Grand Rapids, Michigan, April 9th, 192i. l

EDWARD HEIN 

